On the record
Any man who has gone about much to the county fairs in New York—almost the only place where the farm folks gather in large numbers—can not but have been struck by the high character of the average countryman.
Source
gutenberg.orgEditor's note · Context
Roosevelt observes the high character of country folk at county fairs, highlighting their virtues.
Share
More from Teddy Roosevelt
Apr 22, 1910
The man who does nothing cuts the same sordid figure in the pages of history, whether he be cynic, or fop, or voluptuary.
Apr 22, 1910
We are bound in honor to strive to bring ever nearer the day when, as far as is humanly possible, we shall be able to realize the ideal that each man shall have an equal opportunity to show the stuff that is in him by the way in which he…
Aug 30, 1910
I care for the great deeds of the past chiefly as spurs to drive us onward in the present.
Other voices in this conversation
